Have you considered the importance of hearing and recalling the truths you already know?

Jeffrey D. Johnson emphasizes the necessity of reminding ourselves of the Gospel truths we've learned. Drawing from his own experiences as a young preacher, he highlights the value of repetition in absorbing and retaining the message of the Scriptures. Despite knowing the Gospel, we often forget - hence, the disciple-making process largely consists of repeating the same truth over and over.

The beauty and the glory of the Gospel become more evident as we repeatedly hear it. Even if we have known these truths since childhood, it is crucial to constantly remind ourselves of them. This act of remembrance, practiced daily and weekly, aids in our preservation and continuous growth as disciples of Christ. The Gospel never tires us; instead, its repeated recall serves as a nourishment for our souls.

2 Peter 1:12 (NKJV): "For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth."

So important that we remind people of what they already know. I once was a young man, I was preaching at a, I thought a pretty large conference with a bunch of older, older men. And I was just in my 20s and one of my mentors who asked me to preach, I highly respected him, he was in his 70s, said, what could I say that you don't know? What could I say that the people don't know? He says, we need to be put in remembrance of what we already know.

That always impacted me. And in the New Testament, it says that over and over, put them in remembrance, remind them. And I think one that we know, we forget. And so most of the disciple making process is the repetition of the same truth, the same truth. And part of that is healthy to our soul because the gospel never gets, we never get tired of it.

We see the beauty and the glory of the Gospel and the message of Scriptures more and more as we hear a little bit more about it, a little bit more about it, a little bit more about it. And so even if we've already learned these truths since our childhood, we need to be constantly put in remembrance of those truths on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, and that's part of the preservation process of remaining a disciple of Christ until the very end.